What is the appropriateness of increasing severity of a prison sentence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC v Mivasair, 2022 BCSC 338 (CanLII):
The potential appropriateness of increasing severity of a sentence – including a jail sentence - was endorsed in Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC v. Mivasair, 2019 BCCA 156:
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